Chapter 405: The First Space Voyage
The crankshaft engine is the only faster-than-light engine that Rorschach has now mastered that can be used for astronautics. Although the technical drawings were already in place, it took several months to build the first one, even with the processing capabilities of the Tinder technology.
In order to test the effect of this crankshaft engine as soon as possible, Rorschach directly asked Sarah to build a large spaceship...... of the shell.
Yes, just the shell.
Because to build a fully functional spaceship, it will take much longer than a crankshaft engine.
So, Rorschach just made the most basic power system and space navigation system, put the shell on, and drove this simple spaceship like an olive and flamethrower to start his first spaceflight.
Since the ship doesn't even have a life support system on it, there are no functions such as oxygen pressure and gravity simulation. Therefore, Rorschach also had to change into a body made of Zhenjin again, otherwise he would not be able to carry out this voyage at all.
"Everything is ready, the crankshaft engine is starting to charge, the coordinate calculus is ......"
A series of system prompts sounded, and Rorschach stood steadily in the empty cabin, this spaceship also had a secondary intelligence sequence, which was completely controlled by the fire source.
"Fire No. 1, let's go!"
Rorschach gave an order, and the olive-shaped spaceship that was originally suspended above the base instantly turned into a streamer of light and rushed into the sky. There is no slow acceleration process at all, just like the photons directly turned into the entire search spacecraft, leaving traces in the sky like auroras.
It didn't take long for the spaceship named by Rorschach to Flame One to appear in a cosmic void.
Coordinate Calculation...... Deviation value......"
A lot of data flashed in front of Rorschach, a detailed record of the first crankshaft engine run. The distance of one light year, counting the charge and coordinate calculations, took less than thirty seconds, and the error was no more than a hundred kilometers, and the effect made Rorschach quite satisfied.
"Adjust the deviation parameters again, this time, try to directly cross the distance of ten light years." Rorschach ordered again.
This special crankshaft engine is completely powered by Rorschach's Tinder energy, which cost him about 10,000 Tinder energy on that voyage just now. This kind of consumption can be fully recovered in ten seconds.
The crankshaft engine also does not have the problem that traditional jet engines need to be cooled, which is the space so it is theoretically possible to carry out space travel without interruption.
In this way, Rorschach did not have any definite direction for the astronautics, but only to test the functionality of the crankshaft engine. By the way, I expanded the star map of the space voyage at that time, and threw some mechanical beetles out at every location.
Although these little creatures will constantly float in the universe, even if they are too far away, Rorschach can only vaguely use the source of fire to sense. However, as long as these mechanical beetles float on a fixed star, they can draw a three-dimensional star map for Rorschach, which makes it easier for him to confirm his coordinates during the space voyage.
After all, in the void of the universe, there is no up, down, left, right, south, south, north, west. Every star, even a huge star, orbits in its own orbit, and the distance between planets may change by millions of kilometers every second.
By recording the orbits of multiple planets, it helps to locate the entire cosmic starry sky and find the direction you want.
Of course, ordinary people don't dare to wander around the universe like Rorschach, and once you lose your way, it's almost impossible to find your way home. Only if Rorschach has the Chaos Core Portal that can teleport home at any time, he will be so unscrupulous.
Besides, even if there is any danger, the body of this Fire Transmission No. 1 and Liquid Zhenjin is just a bunch of materials, and it will be a little heart-wrenching at most, and there will be no adverse consequences.
Rorschach is the only one on Earth who can use this spacecraft, which is not even equipped with oxygen circulation, to play astronautics.
It took about four or five hours for Rorschach to fly all the way, and the Fire 1 had already arrived at a star field three hundred light-years away from the original planet.
"Warning, a metal aircraft has been detected approaching ...... at high speed"
A series of warning prompts sounded, and Rorschach immediately called up the radar screen, and found that about 5,000 kilometers away, there happened to be a flying object approaching his location.
It's just that the distance is too far, and I don't know who the other party is at all except that there is such a thing.
"But no matter what the force is, it shouldn't be earthlings. Start optical stealth and see how it goes. Rorschach commanded.
However, the ship's response was: "Sorry, Commander, Flame-1 is not equipped with optical stealth. ”
"There are simple enough, so what can be used in battle?" Rorschach asked.
This spaceship has just been built, and he set sail directly without carefully studying it, and now that he thinks about it, it is estimated that the weapon system has not been installed, and he is afraid that it is completely a target.
"The weapon system is also not installed, and the only combat-related accessory is the vibrating gold shell, which can withstand most energy or physical attacks."
"It's not going to be for me to play with bumper boats, is it? If something goes wrong, just hit it? Rorschach was speechless, but there was no way, after all, it was a test model, and it was already quite awesome to be able to fly so far away without accidents.
As for the alien spacecraft encountered by chance in outer space, Rorschach did not take the initiative to avoid it. No matter who the other party is, if you can communicate, you can see if you can get the star map around here.
And if the other party is the kind of unreasonable alien race that attacks Rorschach directly, it will be even better, and directly grab it. Anyway, no matter what there is on the alien spaceship, it is a treasure for today's earth civilization.
Therefore, Rorschach didn't care so much, and directly let the Fire One accelerate its flight and catch it directly. I thought that with the speed of the spaceship, we would soon be able to meet at a distance of thousands of kilometers, but I didn't expect that the other party was not coming towards the Fire One, but began to take the initiative to avoid it after discovering the Fire One.
"Interesting, do you think I'm a space pirate?" Rorschach said with some surprise.
Isn't this a "friendly" cosmic civilization that is just passing by and doesn't like to cause trouble?
But Rorschach will not let go of the other party, no matter what, he must catch up and take a look first.
"Keep accelerating, catch up!"
Flame One increased its speed to its maximum speed and began to gradually close the distance between the two sides. This Fire One, although only in beta, is outrageously rudimentary. But because it is an empty shell, the flight speed can be said to be greatly enhanced, and it can surpass the opponent's spaceship in speed.
When it got closer to within 1,000 kilometers, Transmission Fire No. 1 was already able to capture the image of the other party.
Rorschach looked at the enlarged picture of the spaceship, touched his chin and said, "Why does this look so familiar?" ”